Rangers, put the handles back on water fountains. These people are thirsty.

Troopers, open up those scenic off-ramps. Mount Rushmore’s gonna dance.

Michelle Obama, get back to tweeting. We need centrally planned lunches.

Everyone, your favorite .gov website is back online. Except healthcare.gov, that one is special.

But wait, what was accomplished by the shutdown? If your thinking “nothing”, you win. Of course the shutdown didn’t stop Obamacare, it never had a chance.

From beginning to end, the People aggressively petitioned DC, campaigned for federal politicians, wrote stern letters to existing US Representatives, installed new ones, marched on Washington, put their hope in the United States Supreme Court and finally relied on Congress to use their power of the purse to defund the ACA. There was a whole list of federal cult of personality leaders too. Brown will save us. Judge Roberts will save us. Cruz will surely save us. But they couldn’t, and they didn’t.

With regards to Obamacare, there is nothing to show for all this effort. The dream that Obamacare might be stopped at the federal level is over. Federal politicians will never limit the accrual of power to Washington DC; and on issue after issue the prove that they never will. It’s time to get serious, time to involve our state governments and simply say “no”. (TAKE ACTION HERE)

The problem is Centralization

What we are faced with is a problem of centralized power. This is not a problem that can be solved by asking the central power to limit itself. It’s easy to consider that between 2010 and 2013 the People made every effort possible to sway federal direction.

Since the problem is centralization, it is only solved by decentralization of power. Decentralization begins when states stand in defense of the People and say “no”.

In 1800, Jefferson attempted to dissuade us from the path that would lead to the situation we find ourselves in today when he wrote:

“Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, & from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer & overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens, and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite the public agents to corruption, plunder & waste. And I do verily believe, that if the principle were to prevail, of a common law being in force in the U S, which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government, it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.”

Ignore Washington D.C. – They are ignoring you, return the favor. How can you really expect them to feel any pressure to represent you? Yes, morally your expectations are valid because they should do the will of the people. Unfortunately, the reality is without the power to exert an opposing force, you will continue to be disregarded as a mere annoyance.

Own your State – The best way to enter a market (in this case a political market) is to dominate a small market, own it and then expand from there. The reason this works is that limited resources can be used to exert a dominant influence on an identified target and you can expand from there. In our case, the small market that we can dominate quickly is our state government. From here we can team with other like-minded states and form a block of resistance that has real legal possibilities, much more powerful than rallies, letters and phone calls.

Ignore the Feds, Empower the States – Regardless of what today’s media would have you believe, state representatives are not elected state paper-shufflers of federal mandates. State governments share power with the federal government as equal partners in a system designed to decentralize power and protect the People from foreign and domestic threats. Ignoring D.C. actually means that we must use state governments to defy unconstitutional federal laws. The federal government itself must be identified as the threat and we must use the legal power of our state governments under the 10th amendment to eliminate the threat, and formally ignore unconstitutional mandates.

Expect a Federal Response – For the most part, the federal government has ignored any resistance to the health care bill. Once we begin to focus our attention on the state governments, everything changes. The media will be unable to ignore a block of defiant states. Personally, you will be ridiculed, but once states exhibit defiance the federal government shifts it’s focus to the states not the individuals. That’s when you will know that you are not being ignored anymore.

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Win – We must again in no uncertain terms confirm the revolutionary message that the People are the source of power. The federal government must fear the people, and the state governments are the legal method in which to achieve this goal. Jefferson clarified the goal: “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

Fortunately, this is still the “rightful remedy.” The bad news is we have wasted three and a half years. The good news is that with all the “begging the feds to limit themselves” nonsense behind us we can get down to business without distractions. Our focus, like a laser, should shift permanently to working with state representatives to draft, promote and pass state-level nullification of all unconstitutional laws.

15 thoughts on “Lesson from the Shutdown: Ignore the Feds and Nullify”

We must use the power of the states and the legal power of our state Governments, but wait they too have all been bribed by the deceivers and all in all governments want more authoritative powers and none are supposed to create any powers they are to receive the powers by the people who created them. These are to be very limited powers in ALL cases because the people are the authorization of power.

Thomas Jefferson spoke in a time when states were very separate on matters of authorizations and he also warned us about central banking practices and the bribery they bring to Governments and ALL have been bribed. So you cannot take something broken and then go and repair something else broken because it will not serve those who created the origination.

What is a state of existing? What is your state of existing? What condition if you reviewed today, what would this be? A republic condition with the state of Liberty and justice for all? Or is the condition suppressed and corrupt in all cases? Is it a tyrannical condition or a ruling state?

People have forgotten where creation is formed by the decisions and agreements WE make, united decision by the force of agreement which is in ALL cases because nothing exist without its agreement plain and simple.

Let us ignore the causes of enslavement the central banking system and stop all bribery in its tracks because in all cases including states can Governments be bought in the name of growing their Government body to increase their authorizing.

Let us work together and wipe out authorization by total nullification. Let us create new ways to live outside central banking practices and let us show the just in this world WE stand united independent from the banksters and bribes in ALL cases.

Governments in all cases are not the answer, the state and condition of existing is the entire answer and who is it that creates these states or conditions of existing? Decision makers in each and every community are the only ones that may create such agreements because otherwise the agreement is of centralized enslavement.

Let us ignore Governments that took the bribes and look to see which are left. That would be a clear picture of the truth wouldn’t it because all have been bribed by the enslavement act of 1913 the creation of the federal reserve system.

Some have chosen to rule the world and have been attempting for 6000 years to control it all and in all cases was bribery used to impose such a state of existing and it was only those who chose to live outside this obsession that have stopped it from taking place, who are these people and what state are they?

A curious statement, as the system of centralized power which they are attempting to resist & abolished is by its very nature forced upon everyone whether they want it or not. Whereas the system of decentralized power as advocated by the text of the Federal Constitution and 10thers is at least subject to the vote of your individual pair of feet.

If you mean that “libertarians” want to “force” people to be free, then you would be correct. Some people don’t want to be free, so freedom to them might feel enslaving. “Libertarian” politics is by definition “liberating”, that is, allowing people choice. The system “libertarians” want is is a system absent from compulsion. How can you force someone into a system of freedom? That is an oxymoron.

So, do people actually get paid for writing this kinda stuff? I mean if so, I cam make a freakin fortune! I have a vivid imagination, I am pretty sure I can make this kind of stuff up! Why is it, that A LOT of people are saying just how bad the ACA is, but can’t REALLY be any more specific about it? Sure, there is no doubt, it is in no way perfect, but it is a prototype, and will have to be fixed as it is put into motion.
The REAL problem is, ALL that matters is finger pointing. Don’t do ANYTHING but point that finger! I say, get off your behinds, and DO SOMETHING, instead of just placing blame! Blame it ALL on ME if you want to, but do it, and move forward! The house has voted over 50 times to repeal the ACA, but WASTED all that time that COULD (should) have been spent on trying to avert the waste of 16 days, and making the USA the laughing stock of the earth!
Stories like this one ONLY wants to place blame, and stir the stink around. Why don’t ANY of these type stories ever encourage the readers to actually support the government? I guess I disliked Bush more than any other President, but I supported his decisions, even though I disagreed with the. Because HE WAS OUR LEADER!
Why haven’t the people so dead set against this ACA, EVER offered a DIFFERENT solution? Because they don’t have one, maybe? Remember, you can not help any one that don’t want help, and you can not lead any one that don’t want to be led. Nothing matters except the dollar. No, not YOUR dollar, THEIR dollar. But, YOUR dollar will be their dollar, as soon as they can devise a scheme to take it away from you!

Before we get to obamacare we have to settle what has been glossed over, Balance the budget, don’t spend more then we have, audit the FED. Follow the Constitution.
Enough of your sidestepping rhetoric Jim, and that goes for you too Brian Roberts. Nullification is the right thing to do and we should do it from the State level because the federal level has been blocking us. First they blocked us from auditing the Fed, don’t let that be glossed over by a smaller crises.

The failure of this effort by the congress represents the profound failure of the house to wield the power of the purse to control the growth of government, as James Madison promised in Federalist 58.

It would seem the current scheme of congress is either too corrupt or too entangled to restrain the Federal government. As this part of the Constitution which was designed to restrain Washington has collapsed in its practical application we must again look to other parts to secure our rights. Noting this failure in our list of grievances with the current form that declares itself Washington, we must move froward with our plans to deal and address it.

We could spend month’s analyzing the failure to deduce its cause whether it be a lack of steel in the current lot of politicians in congress, or simply the fact that we have become too dependent upon Government and too much has been tied together so that any one part however evil must be tied to all the other parts however dependent we have been made upon them. Obviously a Constitutional government cannot function under such circumstances.

Michael is of course is right in that the articles here are so no much about opposition to whatever measure of Washington in their substances but their nature, being unconditionally Federal instead of more property State given their domestic nature.

It is not how they do it, or what they do, but where they do it that is the problem that concerns the 10th Amendment center.

The people of Texas should not be made to live under a healthcare scheme designed for and by the people of Massachusetts. There is no clause in the Federal Constitution that authorized such expansive domestic usurpation and it should be apposed and resisted by whatever means necessary.

Liberals must be permitted to live & work as liberals in Massachusetts just as conservatives must be permitted to live & work as Conservatives in Texas.

Peace and happiness is not found in forcing conflicting interest together in Washington or any other place for that matter. I know you have heard theses words a thousand times but do try to understand them in the present context: Men must be free.

I and many others in SC fully support the nullification of O’care by each state. The Constitution was written to set up and at the same time limit the power of the federal government, which is a central government constitutionally owned by the states. Ownership of the Constitution, and therefore of the Federal Government, by the Senators and Representatives in Washington and the state government was established by the fact that the amendment process for the constitution only involves the state’s Senators and Representatives in Washington and the state governments. Constitutionaly, neither the POTUS or the Supreme Court have anything to do with the admendment process and this is the way it should be. Simply saying the people own the Constitution does not reveal the true owners of the Constitution. Disorganized people have effective power only thru mob rule. The people own and support the Constitution to the extent that they vote for and elect people who believe the Constitution, not the supreme court, is the law of the land. The Constitution does not allow for a balance of power between the Federal Government and the states. Constitutionally, the states own the Constitution and the Federal Government. The constitutionality of a law or action should not be decided by the Supreme Court but by the states thru a process similar to the admendment process.

“the United States has always been a nation of ongoing hustlers from the prisons and disaster areas of old Europe … I do not think that the American System in its present state of decadence is worth preserving. The initial success of the United States was largely accidental. A rich empty continent was … exploited by rapacious Europeans who made slaves of Africans and corpses of Indians in the process.”
– GORE VIDAL